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Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.

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Marcus Buckingham
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 11
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Motivational Speaker
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Radlett
Hertfordshire
Marcus Wilfrid Buckingham
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You will learn and grow the least in your areas of weakness.
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Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.
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We dream of having a clean house - but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don't have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work.
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It's odd that I'm a big name in America and not known in Britain.
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You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
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Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.
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We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.
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There is no shortage of mechanisms by which to measure almost anything.
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Always work hard. Intensity clarifies. It creates not only momentum, but also the pressure you need to feel either friction, or fulfillment.
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Authenticity is your most precious commodity as a leader.
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Sustained success means making the greatest possible impact over the longest period of time
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The best way to find out whether you're on the right path? Stop looking at the path.
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Passion isn't something that lives way up in the sky, in abstract dreams and hopes. It lives at ground level, in the specific details of what you're actually doing every day.
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The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.
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The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.
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Every time you make a rule you take away a choice, and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.
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Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.
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A strength is what you do that makes you feel strengthened.
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